经济学家能从语言学家那里学到什么?行为经济学家基思陈(Keith Chen)介绍了他的研究中发现的奇妙关联:没有区分将来时态的语言明天下雨而不是下明天的雨跟储蓄比例有很强的相关性。阅

发表于:2018-12-09 / 阅读(113) / 评论(0) 分类 TED公开课:莫名关系

English has morphed into several other languages all over the world. 英语已经演变成世界各地好几门其它语言。 Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating, and sometimes they give birth to new ones.Three important factors linguis

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 英美文化

(8) It was, as Bill afterwards expressed it, during a moment of temporary mental apparition, but we didn't find that out till later. 恰如后来比尔说的那样,那阵子简直是一时鬼迷心窍.不过,我们直到后来才明白了这个

发表于:2018-12-12 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 北外翻译笔记

BBC news with John Macintosh. The US vice president Mike Pence has sought to reassure Americas European allies that president Trump is committed to transatlantic cooperation. On his visit to Brussel, he reaffirmed the support from both the European U

发表于:2018-12-20 / 阅读(140) / 评论(0) 分类 中英双语新闻

Science and Technology 科技 Peopling the Americas: Checkpoint 迁徙美洲:检查站 The first migrants to the new world had to wait 8000 years to be admitted. 新大陆的第一批移民在8000年后才被公认。 How America was originally col

发表于:2018-12-29 / 阅读(101) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人科技系列

9. The report, by John Houghton of Victoria University in Australia and Graham Vickery of the OECD, makes heavy reading, for publishers who have ,so far,made handsome profits. 【分析】复合句。主句主干为The report makes heavy reading for

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(118) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

10. Other models exist that are hybrids of these three, such as delayed open-access, where journals allow only subscribers to read a paper for the first six months, before making it freely available to everyone who wishes to see it. 【分析】复合句

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(93) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

Narrator: Exercise 1.8. Lecture 1: Can a new language be learnt in six weeks as some courses promise? Learning a language is not an easy task,though the reason why it is so difficult cannot be explained without an understanding of how human language

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(176) / 评论(0) 分类 202 Useful Exercises for IELTS

AA: I'm Avi Arditti and this week on WORDMASTER: With the national observance of Thanksgiving Day coming up this Thursday, we turn to a linguistic mystery about the day after, which traditionally opens the Christmas holiday shopping season in America

发表于:2018-12-30 / 阅读(126) / 评论(0) 分类 词汇大师(Wordmaster)

The United States recently surpassed Spain to become the second-largest Spanish speaking country in the world, behind only Mexico. Yet in 2015, Vanessa Ruiz, a bilingual news anchor in Arizona, was loudly criticized for pronouncing Spanish wo

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(123) / 评论(0) 分类 英语笔译

Is it OK to split infinitives? 把不定式分开是否恰当? Most split infinitives follow this model an adverb is put between to and the verb. But you also get compound split infinitives where more than one word is put between to and the verb, for

发表于:2019-01-08 / 阅读(111) / 评论(0) 分类 求职英语

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. So which is it? Researche

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(132) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(三)月

English has morphed into several other languages all over the world. 英语已经演变成世界各地好几门其它语言。 Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating, and sometimes they give birth to new ones.Three important factors linguis

发表于:2019-01-15 / 阅读(134) / 评论(0) 分类 实用英语

23. Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable. 【分析】句子主干为 the trendis unmistakable。Illustrated with...culture为过去分词短语作方式

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(106) / 评论(0) 分类 考研英语长难句讲解

So first there's speech, and then writing comes along as a kind of artifice. 所以首先是语音,然后文字作为一种技巧出现了。 Now don't get me wrong, writing has certain advantages. 大家不要误会,文字写作确实有它自己的

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(94) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲商业篇

A four-year-old girl literally stunned audiences when she spoke seven languages fluently on a TV show. 在一档电视节目中,一名四岁的小姑娘一开口就流利地说出了七国语言,让全场观众都惊呆了。 The video of Bella D

发表于:2019-02-01 / 阅读(115) / 评论(0) 分类 趣味英语

外国人惊叹中文难学七大原因 在一些外国人看来,学习中文已成为他们最为头疼的事情。汉语的语调和汉字好像都是个难题。 In some foreigners eyes', the learning of Chinese has become the most difficult t

发表于:2019-02-02 / 阅读(235) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

On Nov. 2, an English textbook dating back to China's Qing Dynasty was displayed by a Chinese citizen from Chengdu, Sichuan province. 11月2日,四川省成都市一位市民展示了清朝时候的一本英语教材。 The book showed how the Chin

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(100) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

New Yorkers Enjoy a Little Help with Grammar The New York City train system has a new unofficial stop for people who love grammaror even just have questions about it. 纽约市地铁出现了一个非官方的新站点专为热爱语法或者只是对语

发表于:2019-02-13 / 阅读(124) / 评论(0) 分类 2019年VOA慢速英语(一)月

Linguistics 语言学 Argot bargy 方言来袭 Why urban teenagers speak the way they do 城里的年轻人为什么那样说话 Nov 2nd 2013 |From the print edition You think my accents bonkers. Your kids speak like me 你觉得我的口音弱爆了。

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(112) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人综合